U.S. Environmental Protection Agency workers in Chicago — the headquarters of the region covering Michigan — are furloughed as the federal government shutdown continues.

The agency that’s overseen foster care cases in Kent County for most of the past decade is suing the state health department for eliminating its funding, while judges that oversee child abuse and neglect cases in the county called the lack of transition planning a “child welfare emergency.”

President Donald Trump has chosen Metro Detroit marijuana businessman Mark Savaya as his special envoy to Iraq, citing Savaya's role in securing "a record vote with Muslim Americans" in Michigan.

Running for a local school board would require a partisan affiliation — like “Democrat” or “Republican” — under a Michigan bill scheduled for a committee hearing Tuesday.

First, a look at the four senatorial candidates looking to fill Gary Peters' seat next year. Then, more on a new film about a feminist free speech pioneer who challenged censorship under the Comstock Act in the 1890s. Plus, Michigan Public's On Hand took a deep dive into the history of the famous (in Michigan, at least) Michigan left.

Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

Augusta Charter Township officials approved a rezoning for a data center, and supporters of a ballot initiative hope to reverse that decision in a vote next year.

Dozens of "No Kings" protests against the Trump administration took place in Michigan on Saturday, with a couple thousand more events happening across the U.S. and abroad.

The second wave of mass protests organized by the progressive No Kings network saw protesters unite against President Trump's anti-immigration tactics, slashing of federal programs and other concerns.

Republicans are pressuring Democrats to vote to open the federal government before negotiating subsidies for health care. A Democrat in a vulnerable district in Michigan says no, as do most of the Members of Congress in her party.